“Ehh, that’s not a question I like to answer really,” St. Charles (no, he wasn‘t a member of Spinal Tap) emails. “I’ll say that it’s a name that makes people feel uncomfortable and I want to confront that.

“I hate to hear pity sex as a phrase. What the hell is that supposed to mean? There’s nothing pitiful about sex. Sex shouldn’t scare people. We write about sex a lot — not gratuitously, sex as love, sex as human, etc.”